Treat yourself to a nice pen A quality pen not only makes the process of writing more pleasant as it will glide across the paper, but the right pen will also help you have neat handwriting. “The ...

While pen and paper may seem poised on the edge of obscurity, handwriting offers a bevy of brain-boosting perks that should not be lost to technology. Melissa Breyer is Treehugger’s former ...

These findings echoed our December 2023 study where we did a meta-analysis of studies published between 2000–2022. These compared the effects of writing by hand or keyboard on primary students ...

Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...

In a digital age, learning cursive and writing by hand could easily become obsolete. New evidence-based research illuminates why it's important for us to keep writing by hand.

Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain. A lot of senses are activated by pressing the pen on paper, seeing the letters you write and hearing the sound ...

Only the French, with goodness-knows-what writing drills on their small-squared paper, seem still to impose a rounded, open, characterless national hand. Handwriting is a personal, intimate thing.